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Tom Douglas Quotes

At the fishmonger, choose fish with bright scales and clear eyes.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: chef
Nationality: american
Birth: August 2, 1958

Topics

Eyes Fish Choose Bright Clear

I think we all evolve as we get older, and that's normal, but I like to think that my recent transition hasn't made me into a different individual. Same person - no difference at all, just a different sex.

Me Think Sex Transition Person Same

Giap was a master of logistics, but his reputation rests on more than that. His victories were achieved by a patient strategy that he and Ho Chi Minh were convinced would succeed - an unwavering resolve to suffer immense casualties and the near total destruction of their country to defeat any adversary, no matter how powerful.

Succeed Reputation Strategy Powerful

You can't be the candidate and the campaign manager.

You Manager Candidate Campaign

My favorite food is hot Cheetos. I could eat those every day.

Food Day Every Day Hot Eat Favorite

In a way, the highest praise you could give to a composer like Bach was to take and make your own arrangement; it was sort of an homage to that composer and to his work, so it wasn't considered sacrilegious to do something like that.

Work You Way Praise Own Something

I want to remind people that we create films for the MMFF as gifts to them, not to see whose entry is better or which film earned more at the tills.

People Better Create Want More See

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Work Future Knowledge People Society

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.

Armistead Maupin

Truth You Said Never Write Always

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

Desire Real Study Without Activity

There are only about three really, really good sitcoms on the air.

Good Three Air Only About Really

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Sherwood Anderson

Truth Beautiful Great Beginning Man

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn't picked me up.

Me Interview Radio Up Microphone

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